PAGE 16, WH-ITBY FREE, PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6,198 roo Ni-urq? ,.l l 1VeirfnisuflnunUP1 I had the disappointment of my life ...again, on. Sunday morning I sometimesget that same feeling of despair on Thursday mornings, but it's on Sunday.. when it really gets to me. During the week, I have little time to indulge in self-pity in quite the saine way possible on Sunday mornings. I usually always wake up earlier than usual on *Sundays, so that I don't miss any precious so-called~ "free" time . The first thing I do is to head for the end of the driveway. I don't even get dressed. Usually I throw on my very dearest and oldest rag of a housecoat and in slippered feet, I dash out to the road. Rarely arn I disappointed, it's faithfully there enveloped in a robin's egg blue plahstic wrapper. OChig it in under my arm , I once again make a run for the bouse before anyone gets sight of me. The whole time running from the end of the driveway to the front door is devoted ta decision-making. Will I take the time to put -the tea on? Should I wasb my face first? Other similar trivial tboughts came to mind. I know deep down in the depths of my mmnd, that what I'm really doing is engaging in some sort of game of suspense with myself. More often than not, by the time I reach the kitchen table, I've decided to get right at it. Neyer mnd the tea or anything else, there will be lots of timne for that later. Inevitably though, I'm faced with another hurdie. I can't find a. pencil. In a bouse with thousands of pencils I can't find even one. Cursing, I -sneak into the eleven-year old wonder's room. Somewhere, likely on the floor I know Ilil find one. I'm neyer disappointed. There's usually a variety ta choose :)m.. Pencil in band, I plod back to t Itchen -table. The contents of the blue plastic spilîs ( onto the table. In the dead silence of the bouse, or the sound of the e h' Phone 655-8945 ISEEMS ýTO ME...i by Veronica Colangelo Sunday fantasy rustling of ioron tas large st newspaper can be heard.- The head'line in heavy black ink glares out at me.... DD YOU WIN? Turn ta, page A2. Faithfully, I do. It doesn't natter what catastrophe bas decended upon us or even what Brian Mulroney's latest antics ar e, I ignore everything else on the front page- and do as inm directed. I turn ta, page A2. Things are neyer easy.for me. I don't know where I've put that most important littie slip of paper. Tbat little slip of paper, that could be my passport ta anything and anywhere I want. It's not on the fridge bebind'the cute little strawberry magnet where I kçnow I put it. This takes a few more minutes of intense concentration to remember that it neyer made it ta its usual honoured spot on the "fridge of messages". It's stili in niy wallet ...safe I dig it out and go back ta Page A2. Page À2 is where ail the new millionaires are announced ta the world. I want ta be one. The best part is that if you do become one, only you will know it, at least for a very short time, until you choose ta announce it. In the anious few moments before'l chek my numbers against the winners,' My mmnd races. The questions are always the same. What W111 I do with my new found wealth? Who* will benefit byniy' gôod luck. Being of saund. mid most of the time,' I realize that in order to secure a safe place in the hereafterý, inrd and good thougbts, not to mention deeds are one way of getting there.,As a result'the an 1swers are always a variation on the samne theme. My first thoughts are always kind and good. There are always those, who< are near and dear to, me and who, could do with having their mortgages paid off. A number of'causes whose efforts I wauld like ta, help, further would certainly enjoy some of the money. My second thoughts however tend to drift ta those who, have not been on my favorite list recently. They'll get my message, not by what they receive, but' what they don't. Next I devote, a little time t alal the worldly. possessions I might. acquire....a bigger bouse, new furniture, t-rips, basically a lifestyle fashione d after those on "The Rich and Famous." My direams are dashed in seconds. The, Great Latta 6-49 computer bas deemed that it is not'Imy time. My numbers have not corne up. They aren'. likely to either. Like hundreds -of thousands. like me the lottery provides for a slight diversion frorn the reality of everyday life. I take consolation in the fact 'that governmenît lotteries do provide funds for worthwhile causes. I take.consolation toa, that the most stressful part of my Sundays are usually in the first fifteen minutes of my waking bour and when that's ovér with I can get on with the 'real" things in life., A WET SPONGE 'n the face, funny face eontest and ladies' ankie contest made for much amusement during Ashburn's celebration of Canada Day last Friday. Free Press photo Canada Day- inI Ashburn i Blood preèýssure clinic Durhamn Save-A-Heart will be holding a blood pressure clinic from. 2 ta, 6 .p.m. today (Wednesday) at the Brooklin Library. This is a chance ta, have a blood pressure check and learn the latest about heart disease, lifestyle and foods affecting blood pressure. Garden tour ickets Sunday, July 10, tickets for the garden taur will be available in Grass Park from noan ta 3 p.m. The cost of the taur is $5. Help.keep Red Cross ready. j i